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What if Radio broadcasting had gone differently?

1906 · north-america

One transmitter can now reach every receiver in range at once.

If it had gone differently: Mass culture and mass politics keep moving at the speed of print; no living-room broadcast, ever.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

What it made possible

Later turning points that leaned on Radio broadcasting. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

  1. 1936Television broadcasting. Without it, Mass culture stays a matter of radio and print; the living-room screen that reshapes politics and leisure never arrives.
  2. 1991The World Wide Web. Without it, Networked computers stay the preserve of universities and corporations; there is no open web for anyone to publish to.

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